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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

> The fact that it was an interpreter meant you could read all the code for any program you found.

This wasn't a granted thing back then.

GW-BASIC source needed to be explicitly saved in ASCII mode.

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A lot of basics compiled each line to bytecode as you entered it. The Spectrum made this explicit with its one-keypress-per-bytecode approach.

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0 pointspjmlp8y ago0 comments

> The fact that it was an interpreter meant you could read all the code for any program you found.

This wasn't a granted thing back then.

GW-BASIC source needed to be explicitly saved in ASCII mode.

A lot of basics compiled each line to bytecode as you entered it. The Spectrum made this explicit with its one-keypress-per-bytecode approach.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse